It's official! We closed on our house yesterday and were given the keys today! I'm really excited! Thus I'm using a lot of exclamation points!
We picked up LED chandelier bulbs as most of the ones in them were burned out, I want to save money, and I don't want to replace them for another decade (I had to get as high as my ladder could extend for the ones in the living room). It's quite impressive that 8 LED bulbs use as much wattage as just one of the bulbs that was in there before.
I also changed out the locks to the main house. I had planned on getting more done today, but everything was taking longer than I planned (which should be my motto). Unfortunately, I was surprised by an extra set of exterior locks that I needed to replace, so I still need one more set to change out both of the garage doors as well. Changing the locks is just a sensible precaution, but we also know that the previous owners rented out the place and had at least one set of keys that they did not give to us as they were able to remove a some items yesterday without getting the keys from our realtor.
I had hoped to deal with the main garage doors as well. However, I still need to figure out how to reset the garage door openers and then reprogram the remotes. Currently, one of the doors doesn't have a remote and the openers themselves (although in great condition) are quite old, making my knowledge of how to make these changes to modern openers rather useless.
Tomorrow, Janelle and I are picking up a U-Haul and loading as much as we can before spending our last night at the rental. Saturday morning, we are packing up the beds and other major items and doing the main push of our move.
I probably won't be posting for the next couple of days. Hopefully, we will have Internet at the new house on Monday, but there is always a chance that a problem might crop up, so there may be a lack of posts from me for even longer.
While I know that the move is going to be exhausting (and has already brought out a bit of creative language on my part), I'm still thrilled that this is finally happening!
We picked up LED chandelier bulbs as most of the ones in them were burned out, I want to save money, and I don't want to replace them for another decade (I had to get as high as my ladder could extend for the ones in the living room). It's quite impressive that 8 LED bulbs use as much wattage as just one of the bulbs that was in there before.
I also changed out the locks to the main house. I had planned on getting more done today, but everything was taking longer than I planned (which should be my motto). Unfortunately, I was surprised by an extra set of exterior locks that I needed to replace, so I still need one more set to change out both of the garage doors as well. Changing the locks is just a sensible precaution, but we also know that the previous owners rented out the place and had at least one set of keys that they did not give to us as they were able to remove a some items yesterday without getting the keys from our realtor.
I had hoped to deal with the main garage doors as well. However, I still need to figure out how to reset the garage door openers and then reprogram the remotes. Currently, one of the doors doesn't have a remote and the openers themselves (although in great condition) are quite old, making my knowledge of how to make these changes to modern openers rather useless.
Tomorrow, Janelle and I are picking up a U-Haul and loading as much as we can before spending our last night at the rental. Saturday morning, we are packing up the beds and other major items and doing the main push of our move.
I probably won't be posting for the next couple of days. Hopefully, we will have Internet at the new house on Monday, but there is always a chance that a problem might crop up, so there may be a lack of posts from me for even longer.
While I know that the move is going to be exhausting (and has already brought out a bit of creative language on my part), I'm still thrilled that this is finally happening!
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